I have been re-creating childhood favorite recipes into healthy, vegan meals lately and my kids have been LOVING it! This vegan hamburger helper style recipe has received rave reviews. It is a quick, easy and absolutely delicous family meal. I used gluten free pasta in this recipe because me and my daughter have celiac but you can use any pasta that you like, it would even work really well with brown rice if you want to make it a whole foods recipe.

Sautee onion, spices, and garlic in vegetable broth until onion is translucent, broccoli, tomatoes, carrot juice, and simmer until broccoli is bright and softened. Add pasta and crumbled burgers and stir well, top with cheese sauce and serve.

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21 Responses to “Vegan Hamburger Helper Style Recipe”

It is really hard to say how many servings the cheese sauce makes because it depends on what you use it for. In a casserole or on pizza it might serve 6 but used for quesadillas or a drizzle on pasta it may have 24 servings.

This recipe was awesome! I used a 15 oz fire-roasted, diced tomatoes instead of italian tomatoes, and also substituted the half teaspoons of garlic powder and salt for one teaspoon of garlic salt. This recipe was DELICIOUS. Especially with the vegan cheese sauce! I will be making this often!

You can purchase black bean burgers in the freezer section of health food grocery stores, you can also make bean or lentil burgers from a recipe. There are dozens of recipes on many popular recipe websites, I also have black bean and lentil burger recipes on my blog as well.

The lentils or beans are processed with brown rice and other ingredients and then made into burgers. Hopefully that helps.

I think there was a mistake with the cheese sauce. The recipe says to add 2 tsps salt. Even though I am a salt addict, I had to throw out the first batch and start over, this time with 1/2 tsp salt. Otherwise, it was very delicious.

If you click the word cheese sauce it takes you to the recipe, it is a very good cheese sauce and works really well for this particular recipe but you could certainly use your favorite type of cheese as well.

I hope you enjoy the recipe! I am not sure if TVP is gluten free or not, I know it is made of defatted soy, however I am not sure if there are any additives that may not be gluten free. I would contact the manufacturer of the TVP and ask them if it is gluten free. I know Bob’s Red Mill has TVP, that might be a good place to start.

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